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April 24, 2012

No-Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

No-bake oatmeal cookies made with peanut butter topped with an easy cocoa drizzle.

Brutus' favorite food in the whole wide world is a No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie. When he sweetly asked me to make some for his school lunches I assured him that I would. That onion is so sweet I would have written him a check too if he'd asked me to.

I popped into the kitchen to whip up a batch and realized that I was almost out of cocoa. Well... what to do? I thought I'd try them without the cocoa (making a few alterations to my recipe to account for that). I made them and they were really, really good. Score!

Then I decided to use the rest of my cocoa to make a little chocolate drizzle! I can't wait for him to try one after supper!

Yield: 30-36 cookiesAuthor: Mandy Rivers | South Your Mouth

No-Bake Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cookies

Ingredients:

Cookies

2 cups sugar

Dash of salt

1 stick REAL butter (1/2 cup)

1/2 cup milk

1 cup peanut butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

3 cups oats*

Waxed paper

Cocoa Drizzle

1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

1/4 cup cocoa powder

2 teaspoons milk

Instructions:

Cookies:

Combine sugar, salt, butter and milk in a saucepan then bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring frequently. Once boiling, cook mixture over medium heat for 1 full minute. Remove from heat immediately.

Add peanut butter and vanilla then stir well. Add oatmeal then stir until thoroughly incorporated. On a sheet of waxed paper, drop mixture by the teaspoonfuls.

Cool 10 minutes then top with Cocoa Drizzle

*I prefer quick-cooking oats vs. old fashioned in this recipe but either will work!

Just made these, they are cooling on the counter. I melted some milk chocolate chips and drizzled them on top since I don't have any powdered sugar. I hope they are good! They sure look and smell yummy.

I just got done making these. Mine were kind of runny so I spooned it into tiny muffin tins. In the fridge now, Wonder how they will be in the am. I am eating the extra right now, yum warm melted peanut butter n oatmeal. Thanks for the recipe

Thank you so much for sharing this recipe. I do not like chocolate and the vast majority of recipes for sweet treats these days include chocolate and are difficult to modify to "chocolate free." This one will be easily convertible!!!

I'm not sure. Boiling the sugar creates the "glue" that holds this together and I'm not familiar enough with Splenda to know if it will yield the same results. If you try it, I'd love to know how it turns out!

Make these with cannabis butter makes good cuz the peanut butter flavors out the cannabis much better than coco...use Incas for pain/sleep sativa's for daytime pain relief an stress ...much more intense than smoking so be careful aan keep away from kids!

I doubled this recipe, meaning I doubled all of the ingredients except for the vanilla extract. I added two tablespoons (yes 2 tablespoons) of pure Madagascar bourbon vanilla extract, and they were out of this world. Cooking one minute and using quick oats worked perfectly!

Hi there! While I'm not able to respond to every comment, I try hard to answer any questions that haven't been addressed in the post, recipe or in other comments. And though I may not respond to them all, I do read each and every comment and I LOVE to hear from you guys! Thanks, y'all! - Mandy